Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support

[Rodney W. Grimes]

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> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > [snip snip]
> >
> > If someone wants to support it, and it doesn't make things in other
> > places harder ... why not do it!
> >
> > It at least keeps our APIs honest..
> >
> 
> If it actually works on real hardware, something we have conflicting
> reports on at the moment...

I have the hardware, it may take me 48 hours to get a machine set
up and running, but I shall at least do that much.  I know I have
plenty of 1.44MB drives, the 5.25 drives are gona be in my junk
storage and may need some work to rescue.

I have just gone and touched 2 P4 motherboards with floppy controllers,
and 2 complete machines that should be P4 or similiar AMD.

I think I can net boot my data recovery/forensics system, which 
has floppy and net booted I can run 10/11 or 12 i386 and amd on it.

So basically I should be able to get us some additional data points
in short order.

 
> And we seem to be short of the 'someone' that would be able to take up the
> banner of wanting to support it, having the skill to support it and
> demonstrating the time is there by fixing bugs...

That is true.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org